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14 Jun 2005, 3:32 pm

there's plenty enough evidence if you want to go ahead and get all the towsnfolk together with torches and pitchforks and drag the monster out of the castle. if you want a criminal conviction in a country with a few civil rights left, you'll have to try to bring a case with actual evidence.

you know, it's not illegal to be weird. if it was, how many people that come to this website would be walking around free?



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14 Jun 2005, 3:38 pm

anyone consider the kids in all of this? whether or not he is (as has been suggested today) "innocent in his head", there is more than just his reputation to think about. would you say the same thing to someone with some sort of mental disability who molested a young child? sympathy for the perpetrator, possibly, but what about the victim?


children should be protected at all costs.



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14 Jun 2005, 5:09 pm

Well, Macauley Culkin says Jackson didn't molest him. We know the accuser is a liar. We don't know that about Culkin, so I'll take his word for it. The only thing that gives me pause is the multi-million dollar settlement in an old lawsuit. But, considering that Jackson is reportedly in debt to the tune of $250,000,000, the settlement really amounted to small change, likely worth it to avoid a trial. We've seen the trouble this preposterous accusation caused him, so the $20 mil was probably money well spent.



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14 Jun 2005, 6:06 pm

I'm not convinced he did it - and on the performance of the procecution it isn't hard to see why he got off. Having said which you have to question the sanity of anyone who allowed their kids to sleep with a grown man in the first place. So I don't know whether he should be compensated for his ordeal as an innocent man, or strung up by the balls until they shrivel up and drop off as a child molester. :roll:

On a lighter note, going round the supermarket this afternoon I was in hysterics - they played 'The Way You Make Me Feel', 'Bad' and 'Smooth Criminal'.... :lol:


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15 Jun 2005, 12:19 am

Personally I don't care about the case. What i do care is how much of a big deal was made about it. What ever happened to hiring some punk to beat the crap out of people we think wronged us? Why do they all have to go to court?



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17 Jun 2005, 2:07 pm

vetivert wrote:
children should be protected at all costs.

Absolutely not.

Certainly not at the cost of an innocent man serving time in prison. Nor in the way social services handle things here in the UK, going on hearsay and rumour; harassing innocent people till they break.